I know it is old news, but I. Scooter Libby, the former top aide to VP Dick Cheney has been found guilty on 4 out of 5 charges against him, primarily for Obstruction of Justice and Perjury. It is interesting that the majority of the jurors have cannot believe that this guy allowed himself to become the fall guy for his bosses. I know loyalty is a valued attribute, but this is crazy. Does Cheney Bush have the same control over Libby that Baroid Bonds has over his trainer Greg Anderson, who has gone to jail refusing to testify against his friend and client? The only question remaining is will the appeal process last longer than January 2009, when Mr. Bush surely will pardon Mr. Libby as he is exiting the oval office. From here it only looks like a matter of when, rather than if. The debate has already begun. The sad part is that those who committed a real crime, exposing CIA operative Valerie Plame are actually going to get away scot free, since Libby perjured himself.
In a separate seemingly unrelated issue, eight republican United States prosecuters were recently fired because they would not play along with republican colleagues in uncovering dirt on democrats and keeping dirt on other republicans in efforts to influence local elections. You can read about it here and here and here. It is especially appalling since Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is claiming these dismissals were performance related, not politically motivated. However, all the performance reports showed no dissatisfaction with the jobs they were doing. I think Mr. Gonzales is going to take significantly more heat for this issue than he ever had to deal with during the warrant less wiretapping issue. These are highly polished, very intelligent lawyers in their own political party that the Bush administration has tried to put out to the curb like yesterdays trash, then once again just try to sweep it under the rug, well I don't think it is going to work this time. This smells an awful like the Nixon Saturday Night Massacre, where the president is trying to extract political vengeance against all his rivals. This is just pathetic.
Finally, the absolutely most outrageous piece in this whole story, that the most well known Veteran Administration Hospital in the country, Walter Reed has been in the news because some of its wings were absolutely filthy and disgusting, and the great decider, our commander in chief has decided to try to pin this responsibility and this derelict to our soldiers on anyone but himself. Whatever happened to support our troops? I guess once they get home, all shot up and broken down that it is alright for them to live in squalor. This is a disgrace and the president should be ashamed himself and demand that the army get its act together and fix this problem rather than doing the normal political two-step and pass the buck. Where is Harry S Truman when you he need him? Just stand up and say mistakes were made a Walter Reed and I am going to make this right, that is all he has to do, and for once I would back him up. But no, he can't do that. Talk about an absolutely spineless move, it makes me stomach churn.
I think Arrianna Huffington may be right
"these scandals reveals how extensively the Bush rot has spread throughout theI know I have advocating in the past to be very cautious when it comes to talking about impeachment of the president, but these recent events have really made me begin to rethink this position. I think it is possible that this presidency could go down in history as one of the worst ever and putting this man in the company of Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding, James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce and Andrew Johnson is not pleasant company, but he certainly deserves to be with them.
Republican Party."
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